VHS : Sleeping Beauty (Fully Restored Limited Edition) (Walt Disney's Masterpiece)

Rating: - This movie is excellent.
Sleeping Beauty is the story of a girl cursed to die when she'll [...] her finger at the age of 16 years. This movie was fully restored and its brilliant soundtrack was remastered making it sound better than ever before. I highly recommand it.

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Rating: - Truly a Beauty!
Disney really gave this film the art-treasure treatment. The film is nearly 50 years old, but the colors glow and the sound is wonderful. A painstaking frame-by-frame restoration was conducted, and the soundtrack remastered, resulting in a film which probably looks better now on DVD than when it was originally released. This film has always been a favorite of mine of all the Disney classics, and I think the music has a lot to do with it. "Once Upon a Dream" is truly beautiful, which is a given considering the classical composition it was based on. The artwork is superb, even for Disney in its heyday. This movie is rightly considered a classic, and has finally been given its due on DVD.

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Rating: - I enjoy the movie
its really awesome. But i spent $40 on the dvd only to find out disney is planning to realease this as their final Platnum Edition from their series. It will, of course, be cheaper and have even more extras than this one. This one mostly has games and menus. good behind the scenes but not all. Im personally happy with my $40 purchase but feel that I should have waited for the Platnum release.

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Rating: - Commentary, Extras
This is a very well done DVD by Disney. The art looks great, and sound is wonderful. If you're thinking of buying this, though, get this for the extras: all are dated and easily recall the era of the late 50's that the movie was released in. "4 Artists Paint 1 Tree" and "The Peter Tchaikovsky Story" are especially enjoyable and add another dimension to the viewing of the film.

The commentary, on the other hand, is nothing special. Yes, there are a couple of songs thrown in that got cut out of the final production. But there is also quite a bit of buttering up of the final production as well as of Walt Disney himself. The commentary is also almost completely disembodied from the film itself - it sounds like they carried out separate interviews with those involved on a few major topics (background art, overall design, Walt Disney) and simply rearranged clips with the voice of a narrator, while in large part ignoring the action of the film.

Get it if you really need to complete the collection. Otherwise, an extremely entertaining rent from your local library thanks to the extras they decided to include.

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Rating: - Wonderful Film. Excellent Extras.
ALL of the short film Extras are on the Second Disk. If you want any Extras, be very careful to order the TWO Disk Set.

Here are some of The EXTRAS on Disk TWO...
"Disneyland" (1954), Once Upon a Dream: The Making of Walt Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' (1997) (V), Grand Canyon (1958), 4 Artists Paint 1 Tree: A Walt Disney 'Adventure in Art' (1958)